Qualifications
Guide camp permit
Have your very own camping adventure
Does camping with a load of other Guides sound like a lot of fun? Thought so! How about getting some great skills at the same time? Then we’ve got just the permit for you.
What's the Guide camp permit?
Guides have the exciting opportunity to work towards the Guide camp permit. This permit will give you a taster of the skills and knowledge to lead your friends on camping trips. The permit will boost your camping experience and leadership skills.
The Guide camp permit enables you to take between 4 to 8 Guides (including yourself) away for a camping experience for 2 nights or more.
The permit is made up of 7 challenges, which you can complete individually or in sets. Each challenge covers a different area of how to plan and run a camping trip.
What do I have to do?
You can complete the 7 challenges in any order you’d like. There is some overlap between challenges, so there’ll be things you need to do alongside each other.
- Challenge 1: plan
- Challenge 2: sort
- Challenge 3: prepare
- Challenge 4: health
- Challenge 5: food
- Challenge 6: activities
- Challenge seven: camp
Remember: Parental consent is required for all participants under 18 years old. Check out our guidance on girl-led residentials for everything you need to run your camp safely.
The Lead Away permit
Some of the above challenges are equivalent to those in the Lead Away permit, so if you want to complete that once you move up to Rangers make sure you keep a record of your Guide camp permit.
There’s more information in the Guide camp permit guidance notes below about how the different qualifications map across to each other.
The Guide programme
There are lots of activities in the Guide programme that can help you prepare for your Guide camp permit. Check out the explore and camp skills builders to get you started. You can also do your Bronze Duke of Edinburgh's Award for even more adventure!
Guidance for supporting volunteers
If you’re a leader, mentor, commissioner or adviser supporting a Guide on their Guide camp permit, check out our guidance notes for lots more helpful information.
Get camping
To start on the Guide camp permit - and to find out more about the challenges - download the full resource.
By completing your permit, you consent to the Girlguiding adventure team getting in touch with you to ask about your experience of achieving the permit. If you want to find out more about how we use your personal information, and about your rights, please visit our privacy notice.